-
VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 is now available for download
vRealize Automation 6.2, which is the new name for vCloud Automation Center has been made available for download earlier today. This release will be adding a lot of new enhancement & features where you can find the full list in the vRealize Automation 6.2 Release notes. In here I want to cover few main enhancements,…
-
vCAC Guest Agent Installation
While using VMware vCloud Automation Center Guest Agent or as many call it Gugent is not a mandatory requirements to use vCAC, it has its merits and use cases. In fact, many customers don’t end up deploying the vCAC Guest Agent within their Windows & Linux machines from day one, as not having the agent…
-
Kemp Technologies VLM-5000 load balancer review
A nice part of being vExpert is that different vendors reach out to you to try their products and you’re able to get an NFR licenses on cool technologies in return. Recently, I had the opportunity to try Kemp Technologies’ Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) 5000 application load balancer. I was originally skeptical as there are many…
-
How to use vCAC new NetworkProfileName Custom Properties
Before the release of vCloud Automation Center 6.1.1, it was common to combine the use of the two below custom properties to assign a particular virtual machine to a particular portgroup/Network Path and a particular network profile: VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Name: This custom property is used to put the virtual machine network adapter N, on the portgroup name…
-
Is VMware Virtual SAN Production Ready Yet?
Lately, one of the question that keep coming during any Software Define Data Center architecture session with my customers: “Is VMware VSAN ready for production environment?”. The short answer is: it depends, for a longer version explanation please keep reading. Before I got into details of the answer to the question if VMware Virtual SAN…
-
Time to upgrade to StarWind Virtual SAN V8
While I was upgrading my Home lab to the latest vCloud Suite with all the new nice goodies that VMware has just released like vCAC 6.1, vSphere 5.5U2, vCenter 5.5U2, ESXi 5.5U2, vCenter Orchestrator 5.5U2 and so on. I was really excited about these new arrivals and rushing to do the upgrade, but I had…
-
Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]
I was at a customer which I have deployed vCloud Automation Center 6.1 for, and they tried to create a new blueprint. They have copied the old blueprint and only changed the VM template used in that blueprint from Windows 2012 to Windows 2008 R2. They saved and published the new blueprint without any problem,…
-
Free VMTurbo Datacenter Stencils for Microsoft Visio® and OmniGraffle
As a part of my consulting job, I end up using Visio to generate a lot of design diagrams (One of the reasons I had to format my MacBook Pro with Windows). For that reason I am always hungry for new Visio Stencils especially when they are specific to my field and being free. The…
-
vCAC 6 Property Dictionary Relationship Builder
Note: If you are looking for how use Property Dictionary Relationship in vRA 7.0, then you want to look at my updated article at: vRA 7 Property Dictionary Relationship, though if you are looking for vRA 6.0, then please keep reading below. While you can create property Dictionary Relationship XML by hand as I have shown…
-
vCAC 6 Property Dictionary Relationship
Note: If you are looking for how use Property Dictionary Relationship in vRA 7.0, then you want to look at my updated article at: vRealize Automation 7 Property Dictionary Relationship, though if you are looking for vRA 6.0, then please keep reading below. Property Dictionary Relationship in vCAC 6 allow you to build a relationship between…
-
vCAC 6 Custom Properties – Build Profiles – Property Dictionary
vCloud Automation Center offer a lot of extensibility features built in within the product that help you achieve your desired result while minimizing the amount of coding required. vCAC Custom Properties, Build Profiles, Property Dictionary is just an example of how you can customize the product to meet your needs while minimizing coding as well…
-
vCloud Automation Center 6.1 Upgrade (Step-by-Step)
As the long waiting vCAC 6.1 was released beginning of this week, I have decided to test the upgrade process in my home lab as many of my customers are getting ready to benefit of the new features and enahancements in this release. The good news for everyone that the process is straight forward, where…
-
Learn Virtualization & VMware vSphere from Scratch
Few months back I got to speak to different friends of mine in the IT field, who were specialized in networking, storage, SAP, Database, Hardware and so on. I was surprised they had zero to little exposure to Virtualization although they are well versed into their field of expertise. They even held highest certifications in…
-
Convert your vCAC Appliance to a vPostgres DB Appliance for vCAC Distributed install in 5 easy steps
VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 documentation and reference architecture recommends the utilization of an external instance of vPostgres when setting up a large/Medium distributed vCAC environment. However, since the release of vCAC 6.0 documentation, standalone vPostgres is EOA and no longer available as a standalone product. VMware has addressed that by allowing you to…
-
Learn PowerShell From Scratch with Veeam
As IT around the globe has been tasked to deliver more with less resources has pushed admins to automate as many tasks as possible. The more tasks you can automate in your datacenter, the more efficient you can do your work and the less chances for error you will do with repeatable tasks. Most of…